{"id":17664,"date":"2011-09-10T07:31:50","date_gmt":"2011-09-10T07:31:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newspaper.ctsi-logistics.com\/?p=17664"},"modified":"2011-09-10T07:31:50","modified_gmt":"2011-09-10T07:31:50","slug":"vismindapiahi-wins-in-masters-too","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/vismindapiahi-wins-in-masters-too\/","title":{"rendered":"VisMinda\/PIAHI wins in masters, too"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>By Roselyn Monroyo<br \/>\nReporter<\/div>\n<p>VisMinda\/PIAHI forced a three-way tie for the lead in the UFO Inter-Organization Masters Basketball Docomo Pacific Cup 2011 after beating MDX\/Armatech, 92-85, on Thursday night at the TSL Sports Complex.<\/p>\n<p>VisMinda improved to a 3-1 record, the same slate MDX and Cabalen\/Wings Travel hold.<\/p>\n<p>Five of the nine VisMinda players scored in double figures for the team&#8217;s balance offense and the PIAHI-backed squad took control of the match in the second period en route to its third straight win.<\/p>\n<p>Ray Lizama led VisMinda with 18 markers, Jun Abedes and Jack Palacios chipped in 16 each, Junior Renguul contributed 15, and Leo Ruluked had 10.<\/p>\n<p>Palacios drilled eight of his total points in the opening canto, lifting PIAHI to a 24-20 lead. MDX, which played without spitfire Martine Moreno, managed to stay in the game in the first period behind the three-point shooting of James Abuy and Ferdie Tobias, who had two triples apiece.<\/p>\n<p>However, things started to fall apart for MDX in the second canto when only Tobias scored more than two field goals for Armatech. VisMinda outgunned MDX in the second quarter, 26-14, turning a four-point lead to a big 50-34 halftime advantage. Five VisMinda players tallied at least four points each in the second-quarter breakaway,<\/p>\n<p>VisMinda widened the gap further at the end of the third, 73-52, as the team continued to draw contributions from every player it fielded in the game. MDX failed to make headway in the third despite getting back-to-back triples from Ariel Jinang at the end of that canto, as Abuy went cold anew, while Tobias had only two field goals.<\/p>\n<p>Abuy, who finished with a game-high 21 points, tried to redeem himself in the payoff canto, nailing six triples, but MDX still fell short, as Lizama and Abedes made game-saving baskets for VisMinda.<\/p>\n<p>VisMinda\/PIAHI 92 &#8211; Lizama 18, Abedes 16, Palacios 16, Renguul 15, Ruluked 10, Gabaldon 7, Manipon 6.<\/p>\n<p>MDX\/Armatech 85 &#8211; Abuy 21, Tobias 18, Berline 13, Montano 9, Malasarte 6, Jinang 6, Banatasa 4, Trajano 4.<\/p>\n<p>Scoring by quarters: 24-20, 50-34, 73-52. 92-85.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Roselyn Monroyo Reporter VisMinda\/PIAHI forced a three-way tie for the lead in the UFO&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17664\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}